Draft Evader Visits His Pardoner, Clinton

WASHINGTON — President Clinton met Friday with Preston King, the Georgia man he pardoned for draft evasion 39 years after King fled to England.

King, 63, a political science professor at Lancaster University in England, came to the White House and sat in on Clinton’s taping of his weekly radio address. He told reporters later that he thanked Clinton for pardoning him.

“I was delighted to go in and meet with him,” King said. “I don’t want to comment further on it, simply to say that I’m grateful.”